Official history is believing the murderers at their word.

The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.

Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think ofhimself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches him this.

On reaching a certain degree of pain we lose the world.

All those who possess in its pure state the love of their neighbour and the acceptance of the order of the world, inclucing affliction-all those, even should they live and die to all appearances atheists, are surely saved.

Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.

Renunciation is submission to time.